Silences And Sounds

The “write it perfectly” trap reached out and caught me yesterday. It’s hard to write when every sentence feels like it needs to be perfec...

In Musicological Paper Structures 101 , I introduced the idea of a paper template that I find helpful for my undergraduates. The first mod...

In a discipline that recognizes that sonata form and all its nuances was a real and useful framework for composers, the need for teaching...

Today was a good reminder to me of my own childhood training as a writer. I was taught the sunflower approach to paper organization: a seri...

In many ways, I am a data-dragon. I like to collect a lot of “just plain information” about a thing, hoarding up data-points like that mo...

Elements of article planning: beginning stages   I’m newly collaborating with a colleague and it’s made me hyper aware of my own system of a...

Blue Spring 2025 notebook, plus a page from a previous notebook I’m a paper person. I think best while writing; I am an inveterate list-make...

A snippet of the Thalbach Chronicle (Bregenz VLA Thalbach Hs 9) and the logo/motto from Transkribus: "Unlock the past with Transkribus...

Newton's cradle with an arrow for the impulse of "writing" Why write a blog? In all the busy times, with all the other thing...

  A "no entry" red circle over a parallelogram labeled "The Blah Zone" When you're caught in the blah zone—the ...